COBUILD, BNC, LET, LCL, Marzano and the others: forging an instrument for vocabulary learning/teaching from word frequency counts, word clusters and other types of vocabulary lists

• Autores: Michaël Goethals
• Localización: ITL International Journal of Applied Linguistics, ISSN 0019-0810, ISSN-e 1783-1490, Nº. 97-98, 1992 (Ejemplar dedicado a: Études offertes à Karel Van den Eynde. Vol. II, Linguistique générale et linguistique descriptive / coord. por Nicole Delbecque, Pierre Swiggers), págs. 121-158
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • The present article wants to discuss advantages and limitations of word frequency counts for foreign language teaching and ways of putting them to good use. It will do so along a review of the "Leuven English Teaching Vocabulary-list" (the LET-list), (shorty also of) the authorware "A.D.A.M. & E.V.E." (Automated Document Analyis and Manipulation and Extensive Variety of Exercises) and the courseware "CTP" (Comprehension Training Package), and in a detailed presentation of the current E.E.T.-project in our department, the "Extended English Teaching Vocabulary-List". The whole discussion circles around a sensible and responsible use and manipulation of an amount of objective data, combined with (inter-)subjective choices, into an instrument that allows teacher and learner to manage vocabulary learning from authentic text materials systemtically and reliably